Education in the 21st century

4:52 PM,
Nov. 23, 2013

Written by

Pamela Ann Kirst

The times, they are a-changin' even more now than when Bob Dylan penned those words. In education, for sure, we're living through a time of real transition.

Back in the 1830s, Horace Mann started the Common School movement. He proposed children should be universally educated in the three R's at the government's expense. The American citizenry needed to read well, to have arithmetic skills and to express itself through writing. Students also needed cooperative skills and, if warranted, to develop leadership capability. It was the beginning of realizing that dream Thomas Jefferson had of ...